23/12/11: City of London Corporation Cleaners say “OCCUPY GUILDHALL!”

23/12/11: City of London Corporation Cleaners say “OCCUPY GUILDHALL!”

Cleaners are staging a sit-in at the Corporation of London’s Guildhall in protest at the inadequate response of their employer, the contractor Sodexo over the abusive treatment of women employees.


The cleaners say the last straw was an incident involving a manager and one of the union representatives on Monday 21 November.  The rep Isabel Martin was followed to a room in the basement of Guildhall, where she was blocked from leaving with the door closed, then it is alleged a male supervisor subjected her to an outburst of aggression and intimidating behaviour, the terrified women felt was  under threat of real physical violence.